Truck.



No. 729,682. l PTENTED `JUNE 2, 1903P T.V G. SELLEGL TRUCK. 4

APPLICATION I'ILED HAY 19I 1902.

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l THEODORE Gr. SELLECK, OF CHICAGO,

UNITED YSTATES Patented J une 2, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO ACME STEEL COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

TRUCK,

sPEcIFIcATIoN forming part of Letters :Patent No. 729,682, dated June 2, 1903.

. Application iled May 10, 1902.

To all whom t may concern.- y

Be it known that I, THEoDoRE G. SELLEOK,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Chi-- cago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trucks, of which the following is a specification. A

My invention relates more particularlyto trucks to be used in conveying charges of steel to a converting-furnace, especially of the type shown in my copending application for a furnace filed of even date herewith.

The object of my invention is to provide, rst, a truck which shall facilitate. the charging of a heated converting-furnace with previously-prepared.charges of steel, and, second, to provide a pivoted truck with means for preventing heavy loads from slidingoff the same. These and such other objects as may hereinafter appear are accomplished by the devices illustrated `in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of my improved truck. Fig. 2 is a plan View thereof. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2 looking in the direction indicated by the arrows. Fig. 4 is a detail showing a box on my improved truck with the brake out of operation. Fig. 5 is a similar detail showing the brake in operation, and Fig. 6 is a detail of the brake.

Similar letters of Vreference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the drawings.

In its preferred form when constructed for the specific purposes previously noted my truck is composed of two plates A A, placed on edge and parallel with each` other, connected together by tie-bolts B B B, some of: said tie-bolts'being provided withsleeves C and servingl as journals for rollers D D D. The side plates A are carried by supports E, to which are journaled the truck-wheels F.

The forward end of the truck is provided with a long overhanging and preferably narrowed portion or nose Gr, whichis adapted to extend into the converting-boxes of myheated converting-furnace, but is of course adapted for use in any similar situations.

H is a brake constructed, preferably, in the form of a loop, which is pivoted upon I, which Serial No. 108,060. (No model.)

may also be oneof the tie-bolts of the truck,

and is provided with angular braking proj ections h. The downwardly-depending portion ofthe brake H should be of suihcient length `5 5 to give a greatly-multiplied leverage at the extreme lower end as against' the leverage between the pivot I andthe projection or nose h. P ivoted tol the brake H is a hook J, adapted to engage alcross-pin or tie-bolt K 6o and provided with a handle L.

My truckis used as follows: A loaded box- M is readily rolled onto the truck by means of the rollers D D and is confined laterally by the uprights N; but owing to the fact 6,5 that the box M rests upon the rollers D the box would readily roll off of the truck unless the truck be at all times maintained per feotly level. To overcome this difficulty, I provide the brake H. Asthe box is slid onto 7o the truck it engages and depresses the nose ,h of the brake H and the brake swings on its 'brake H the lower portion of the brake is manually swung downwardly and forwardly to the position shown in Fig. 5, thereby causing the nose 71, to engage the under side of the box and tolift one end of it oif of the rollers 8o D, in which position it is held by throwing the hook .I intoengagement with the pinor tiebolt K. In this position one end of the box M rests upon the two noses 7L 72, on the brake I-I and by reason of its weight has such 8 5 frictional engagement therewith that it may not be readily moved lengthwise of the truck. W hen the truck has beenbrought to the furnace and the projecting 'nose G inserted in one of the furnace-boxes, the box M is slightly 9o liftedby means of the brake H, the hook .I is disengaged from the tie-bolt K by means of the handle L, and the brake released, whereupon it-resumes the position shownin Fig.` 4, and the box M, now resting upon the rollers D, is readily pushed forward olf the truck and into the converting-boxes of the furnace.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A truck provided with an elongated, overhanging end and a plurality of rollers on IOO the bed of the truck, means for engaging a load carried by said truck and for partially lifting the same above the surface of said truck, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a truck of a brake beam, pivoted below the surface of the bed of the truck, provided at its upper end with means having sharp ends for engaging and lifting an article resting upon the truck, and with means for supporting such article above its normal position upon the truck, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a truck of a brake, comprising a lever pivoted to the truck, arranged to have its long arm normally depend below the bed of the truck and to have its short arm extend above the bed of the truck, and means extending substantially parallel therewith and pivoted thereto for locking it in such position, substantially as described.

4. The combination with a supporting-surface of a brake, comprising a lever pivoted at a point below said surface so that its up- `tending above said supporting-surface, substantially as described.

5. The combination with a truck, comprising a pair of parallel supports, of a brake lcomprising a U-shaped lever pivoted adjacent to its upper ends to and at a point below p the upper surface of said supports, a second lever pivoted between the arms of said U- shaped lever, and provided with a hook, and means for engaging said hook, whereby said U -shaped lever Will be locked in position with its short arms projecting above the surface of said supports, substantially as described.

' THEODORE G. SELLECK. Witnesses:

O. R. BARNETT, M. E. SHIELDs. 

